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Back in March, I tried to find as many Linux-based UMPCs as I could. At the time, I found 18, which was expanded to 20 with the help of commenters. After many more Linux-based UMPC releases, I decided to see how many more I could find. The first 20 on the list below are from the previous list.
- Eee PC
- CloudBook
- OLPC
- Noahpad
- HP 2133
- Elonex One
- Gecko Laptop
- Intel’s MID(s) – Yeah, yeah, I know it is a “MID” not a “UMPC.” Who really cares?
- BPETD H9
- EB MIMD
- eo TufTab v7112XT
- Pepper Pad
- Lime PC
- Simple PC
- ECS G10IL
- WING
- Unnamed Acer UMPC – Linux on this device is not confirmed, but quite possible It is now called the Aspire One and it does run Linux.
- Gigabyte M528 MID
- Nokia N810, N800, N770
- Zaurus
- Bestlink Alpha 400
- MSI Wind
- Aware A-Pad
- 3K RazorBook
- Sylvania G
- Gigabyte M912V
- Unnamed GeCube
- VIA OpenBook
- Ink Mobile
- VDL Jisus
- Lenovo IdeaPad S10
- Dell E
- Gdium
- Elonex Webbook
- Pandora
Wow! 32 32+ Linux-based UMPCs! Here is my question: many people, including myself, consider the Eee PC to be the product that caused so many new UMPCs to appear. Sort of like a spark for the UMPC business, but is that true? How may of these UMPCs would exist if the Eee PC had never appeared. My guess is not many.
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Great list, althought it would be cool if you had a buying link attached to it also ..
Which ones do you guys think uses the highest quality in case design, component quality, and shock resistance?
If I buy one of these UMPC’s I won’t spend any time on sending it for repairing, but not on workarounds with drivers in Linux neither!
I think Lenovo IdeaPad S10 looks very nice, the round metal cylinder lid looks very cool, like on the MSI MegaBook (Which is infact a very good computer, I’ve used one myself at a friends house, very comfortable to work with, and very nice design.
The Pandora machine claims openGL and SVideo out. See here:
http://openpandora.org/
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7004794073.html
Also, this sector is merging fast & hard with the phone sector, so for example the freerunner phone could be considered to be suitable for this list.
anyone knows which of this netebooks ( if any) has a TV-OUT port? ( s-video )?
“How may of these UMPCs would exist if the Eee PC had never appeared”
IMHO, the main enzime was the OLPC, not the EEE PC
Make it 33. You missed the Elonex Webbook
http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/07/24/say-hello/
Good list It could be made a Wiki.
Interesting – I really didn’t realise the list was that long, good for us though
Lets make it 33 with the Gdium http://www.gdium.com/
I my opinion it looks to be the most interesting since it is not “just” trying to be a Linux driven version of something already present on the marked (I know – the Eee was, sort of, a new thing, but mostly due to size and use of ssd imho).
The description of Gayaplex is a bit vague, but it’l be interesting to see how that (and other similar) concept evolves.